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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
28 May 2015 • London
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297 lots
  • 209. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
    [Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix.] Notebook containing 19 letters of Mendelssohn to Schumann, from 1836 to 1846, transcribed by an unidentified copyist and corrected and annotated by Clara Schumann
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 211. Puccini, Giacomo
    Two autograph letters signed ("GPuccini" and "Leoncavallo")
    Estimate: 800 – 1,200 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 212. A collection of autograph letters and album-leaves signed
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 213. Reger, Max
    Three autograph letters signed ("Reger"; "Max Reger"), including to Walter Paetow and the publishing firm of Schlesinger in Berlin
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 214. Schoenberg, Arnold
    Autograph letter signed ("ArnoldSchönberg"), to an unidentified musician ("Sehr geehrter Herr Hofkapellmeister"), about a performance of Gurre-Lieder
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 215. Strauss, Johann II
    Autograph letter signed ("Johann Strauss"), to [Franz von Gernerth (1821-1900), author of a later text for "The Blue Danube" waltz], about the "Groß-Wien" Waltz Op.440
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 216. Strauss, Richard
    Three autograph letters signed ("DrRichardStrauss"; "Rich. Strauss"), one to Oskar Fried about Mahler
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 217. Wagner, Richard
    Autograph letter signed ("Rich. Wagner"), apparently about "Die Meistersinger", to A. L. Mazière at his publisher Schott's in Mainz
    Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 218. Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Fine album of printed music, owned by his youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice (1857-1944)
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 219. Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Preludes et fugues pour le forte-piano dans tous les tons, tant majeurs que mineurs...I Partie [the "48", Book 2, BWV 870-893], Paris & Bonn: N. Simrock, [c.1802], with nineteenth-century editorial annotations
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 220. Balakirev, Mily
    Autograph musical quotation of the opening eight bars of Islamey, signed and inscribed in Russian ("Islamey...M. Balakirev, Gatchina, 15 July 1895”)
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 221. Beethoven, Ludwig van
    Autograph letter signed ("Beethowen"), [to Baron Ignaz von Gleichenstein] in Gothic script
    Estimate: 10,000 – 12,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED